Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, or as the Chinese refer to it the June 4th Movement (六四运动). The popular narrative is a simple one, a brutal Communist Dictatorship cracking down on pro-democracy demonstrators, and it is taken for granted that the protesters were all demanding a

Apart from the LPUK notices outlined below, there are a few other things of a libertarian nature to plug. First, members of LPUK (your humble Devil included) will be talking to a combined meeting of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and the Cambridge Libertarian Society on Tuesday 28th October. The format is, I believe, similar to the Oxford meeting, i.e. a swift talk and then a Q ...

I am aware that there is a flame war going on various blogs notably OH and DK on the subject of Israel/Palestine/Hamas/right to self defence etc etc. Somewhere along the line the LPUK has been drawn into this dispute, OH has felt it neccessary to resign his membership of the LPUK, I am not sure why as the LPUK has not made any pronouncements on this subject at all. DK has taken some fairly forthri...

I’ve been the happy owner of a Gaggia Classic espresso machine for more than 2 years. It’s a stout, shining beast of a machine that sits proudly in my kitchen and provides 3 or 4 excellent cups of espresso that make my daily website programming much more pleasant. So pleased have I been with the

There is a terrible massacre going on in Gaza right now -- including mass torture. Hospitals and schools are being turned into make-shift torture chambers. At least 100 people have been killed that way since the weekend. I call for a U.N. denunciation! I call for protests in Canadian streets! Where is Sid Ryan? What? What's that? The massacre and torture are being conducted by Hamas against t...

In 2007, the LPUK was born out of a total frustration with the 'Big Brother' State, and the seeming non existant opposition to the Government by the Tories and Social Democrats. The LPUK was the first Party born out of the 'Net' The Political Blogs were the only force that was consistantly exposing graft,corruption, expense fiddling and incompetance of Big State, High Tax Gover...

LPUK Website Down Apologies to everyone attempting to access the LPUK website or forum and finding that it is down. It is technical problem of the sort that happens from time to time with these things. Our technical chaps (the Devil and his server suppliers) assure us that it will be back up well within the next 24 hours. We'll post here when it's back up again. Once again, apologies. ++...

A small video I created in support of the LPUK campaign in Norwich.

On the trail of the Shopper Shadow Chief Secretary Philip Hammond has been talking to the FT about how the Tories will tackle the Simple Shopper. BOM readers are only too familiar with the Shopper. He's the one who costs...

The alarming regularity with which these mass killings occur tests our ability to see the human tragedy afresh in each massacre.